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In the "high elevation" regions of the Greenstone Trail, the leaves were beginning to turn in mid-August.
This is a view of Mount Alfred from up the side of another mountain in Kinloch, Otago, New Zealand. The type of wide angle lens I'm using makes Mount Alfred appear far off and small, but in reality it is quite a bit larger. I got here by helicopter and was just one of a dozen spots chosen by our pilot from Over The Top - The Helicopter Company in Queenstown, New Zealand. More at goo.gl/HAb4bs
The Grade I Listed Bolingbroke Castle, built by Ranulf around 1220 in Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Most of the castle is built of Spilsby greenstone, as are several nearby churches. The local greenstone is a limestone that proved to be porous, prone to rapid deterioration when exposed to weather and a substandard building material. The castle was constructed as an irregular polygonal enclosure. The castle is one of the earliest examples of a uniform castle designed and built without a keep. It originally was surrounded by a large water-filled moat 31 metres (102 ft) wide. The curtain wall was up to 5 metres (16 ft) feet thick and defended by five D-shaped towers and a twin-towered gate house.
Similar to another castle built by Ranulf during the same period at Beeston in Cheshire, Bolingroke had no inner defensive keep. The castle relied instead on thick walls and the five D shaped defensive corner towers. Some design similarities are noted with the contemporary castle at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France that was also constructed without a central donjon.
The area was first fortified by the Saxons in the 6th or 7th century. In the 12th century the Normans built a Motte-and-bailey on a nearby hill above the settlement of Bolingbroke. The present structure was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade.
Ranulf died in 1232 without a male heir, and his titles, lands and castles passed to his sisters. Following the death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1361 Bolingbroke passed through marriage into the ownership of John of Gaunt. His wife Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, was born at the Castle in 1345. John and Blanche's son, Henry, was also born at Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 and consequentially was known as "Henry Bolingbroke" before he became king in 1399.
By the 15th and 16th century, the castle had fallen into disrepair although repairs were carried out during the Tudor period. In 1636 a survey found that all of the towers were effectively beyond repair.
At the start of the First English Civil War, Bolingbroke was again put to use as a military fortification garrisoned by Royalist forces. In 1643 it was badly damaged in a siege during the Battle of Winceby. The following year, the castle was recaptured from the Parliamentarians but due to defeats elsewhere was relinquished again. In 1652 the castle was slighted to prevent any further use. The towers and walls were torn down and dumped into the moat. The last major structure collapsed in 1815.
The castle, which is now a national monument, was excavated in the 1960s and 1970s. It was maintained by English Heritage up until 1995 when Heritage Lincolnshire took ownership. Much of the lower walls are still visible as are the ground floors of the towers. In the summertime, the castle is home to numerous events including performances of Shakespeare.
The Grade I Listed Bolingbroke Castle, built by Ranulf around 1220 in Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Most of the castle is built of Spilsby greenstone, as are several nearby churches. The local greenstone is a limestone that proved to be porous, prone to rapid deterioration when exposed to weather and a substandard building material. The castle was constructed as an irregular polygonal enclosure. The castle is one of the earliest examples of a uniform castle designed and built without a keep. It originally was surrounded by a large water-filled moat 31 metres (102 ft) wide. The curtain wall was up to 5 metres (16 ft) feet thick and defended by five D-shaped towers and a twin-towered gate house.
Similar to another castle built by Ranulf during the same period at Beeston in Cheshire, Bolingroke had no inner defensive keep. The castle relied instead on thick walls and the five D shaped defensive corner towers. Some design similarities are noted with the contemporary castle at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France that was also constructed without a central donjon.
The area was first fortified by the Saxons in the 6th or 7th century. In the 12th century the Normans built a Motte-and-bailey on a nearby hill above the settlement of Bolingbroke. The present structure was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade.
Ranulf died in 1232 without a male heir, and his titles, lands and castles passed to his sisters. Following the death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1361 Bolingbroke passed through marriage into the ownership of John of Gaunt. His wife Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, was born at the Castle in 1345. John and Blanche's son, Henry, was also born at Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 and consequentially was known as "Henry Bolingbroke" before he became king in 1399.
By the 15th and 16th century, the castle had fallen into disrepair although repairs were carried out during the Tudor period. In 1636 a survey found that all of the towers were effectively beyond repair.
At the start of the First English Civil War, Bolingbroke was again put to use as a military fortification garrisoned by Royalist forces. In 1643 it was badly damaged in a siege during the Battle of Winceby. The following year, the castle was recaptured from the Parliamentarians but due to defeats elsewhere was relinquished again. In 1652 the castle was slighted to prevent any further use. The towers and walls were torn down and dumped into the moat.
The last major structure collapsed in 1815.
The castle, which is now a national monument, was excavated in the 1960s and 1970s. It was maintained by English Heritage up until 1995 when Heritage Lincolnshire took ownership. Much of the lower walls are still visible as are the ground floors of the towers. In the summertime, the castle is home to numerous events including performances of Shakespeare.
The Grade I Listed Bolingbroke Castle, built by Ranulf around 1220 in Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Most of the castle is built of Spilsby greenstone, as are several nearby churches. The local greenstone is a limestone that proved to be porous, prone to rapid deterioration when exposed to weather and a substandard building material. The castle was constructed as an irregular polygonal enclosure. The castle is one of the earliest examples of a uniform castle designed and built without a keep. It originally was surrounded by a large water-filled moat 31 metres (102 ft) wide. The curtain wall was up to 5 metres (16 ft) feet thick and defended by five D-shaped towers and a twin-towered gate house.
Similar to another castle built by Ranulf during the same period at Beeston in Cheshire, Bolingroke had no inner defensive keep. The castle relied instead on thick walls and the five D shaped defensive corner towers. Some design similarities are noted with the contemporary castle at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France that was also constructed without a central donjon.
The area was first fortified by the Saxons in the 6th or 7th century. In the 12th century the Normans built a Motte-and-bailey on a nearby hill above the settlement of Bolingbroke. The present structure was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade.
Ranulf died in 1232 without a male heir, and his titles, lands and castles passed to his sisters. Following the death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1361 Bolingbroke passed through marriage into the ownership of John of Gaunt. His wife Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, was born at the Castle in 1345. John and Blanche's son, Henry, was also born at Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 and consequentially was known as "Henry Bolingbroke" before he became king in 1399.
By the 15th and 16th century, the castle had fallen into disrepair although repairs were carried out during the Tudor period. In 1636 a survey found that all of the towers were effectively beyond repair.
At the start of the First English Civil War, Bolingbroke was again put to use as a military fortification garrisoned by Royalist forces. In 1643 it was badly damaged in a siege during the Battle of Winceby. The following year, the castle was recaptured from the Parliamentarians but due to defeats elsewhere was relinquished again. In 1652 the castle was slighted to prevent any further use. The towers and walls were torn down and dumped into the moat.
The last major structure collapsed in 1815.
The castle, which is now a national monument, was excavated in the 1960s and 1970s. It was maintained by English Heritage up until 1995 when Heritage Lincolnshire took ownership. Much of the lower walls are still visible as are the ground floors of the towers. In the summertime, the castle is home to numerous events including performances of Shakespeare.
Up high in the hills, the rays of the sunrise take much longer to reach every nook and cranny. This process makes the golden hour experience much more interesting as pockets of Kodacoloring that paint the trees in the valleys that surround you. Enroute to the Jacks Mountain tunnel east portal I did some scouting, shooting, and french fry eating. All in all a 10/10 experience even if the fries were cold.
Greenstone, PA Jacks Mountain, PA
A shot from a recent trip to the Twenty Lakes Basin just over the east side of Tioga Pass outside Yosemite. A person can feel small here. I spent a couple of days exploring this basin with two of my fishing buddies.
I'm pretty certain we'll come back.
Two knockers, composed of pillow basalt (now greenstone), exposed along the Parkfield-Coalinga Road, Fresno County, California. Knockers are reasonably common within central melange belt of the Franciscan Complex (Jurassic to Cretaceous).
Indian paintbrush blooms near Greenstone Lake in the Hoover Wilderness beneath North Peak and Mount Conness in Mono County, California.
Greenstone Falls on the Carp River if I'm remembering correct?
This is a remake of a 8 year old image with the newest Lightroom (better all the time)!
Greenstone from the Precambrian of Pennsylvania, USA.
Greenstone is a crystalline-textured to weakly foliated metamorphic rock having the minerals chlorite, epidote, actinolite, and plagioclase feldspar. Greenstone usually forms by low- to intermediate-grade metamorphism of basalt. The sample seen here was formerly an amygdaloidal basalt, a vesicular basalt with secondary minerals filling the vesicles - in this case, light greenish-colored epidote. The rock comes from the Blue Ridge in the Appalachians of Pennsylvania. It's derived from the Catoctin Formation, a late Precambrian-aged succession of mostly mafic volcanic rocks interpreted to be metamorphosed continental flood basalts.
Stratigraphy: Catoctin Formation (Catoctin Greenstone), Ediacaran, upper Neoproterozoic, 555-568 Ma (with error bars, = 551-572 Ma)
Locality: Route 16 roadcut between Waynesboro (southeastern Franklin County) and Liberty Mills (southwestern Adams County), southern margin of Pennsylvania, USA
These golden leaves made a beautiful image against the bright blue sky at the Greenstone Overlook along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Nelson County, Virginia. I joined Flickr friend John (John H Bowman) and his wife Ruth Ann for a drive along the Parkway this past weekend, and this was an example of the fall colors we saw along the way.
Because the Greenstone Trail spends a lot of its 40 miles in the woods, Isle Royale aficionados often recommend other, shorter trails. However, this stretch north of Ojibway Tower does provide great views on both sides - as you can see here.
Everything you see here is a congressionally-designated wilderness area in the middle of Lake Superior.
Pullman Historical District
Thee history of Pullman — the first modernist planned community in the United States — is a tragic one. George Pullman, the founder, was a liberal railroad tycoon with a reputation as a "welfare capitalist." He founded the Pullman company town with the intention of creating a perfect industrial community which would avoid the vice and extreme poverty found in urban industrial communities and therefore also avoid related worker unrest. To accomplish his goal, he built a very attractive landscaped town in the countryside to the south of Chicago. The company provided wages significantly higher than national averages and state-of-the-art utilities. He met widespread acclaim for his town, including an award for the "World's Most Perfect Town", and visitors came to see Pullman (and the World's Fair Columbian Exposition) from places as far away as Europe.
A lesson in paternalism and central planning, Pullman controlled nearly every aspect of his resident workers lives. A famous quote sums up this paternalism problem nicely, "We are born in a Pullman house, fed from the Pullman shop, taught in the Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church, and when we die we shall be buried in the Pullman cemetery and go to the Pullman Hell." The failures of the Pullman company town foreshadowed later 20th century planned communities which had similarly good intentions, but disastrous effects (e.g., the Ida B Wells housing projects of Bronzeville).
Following the severe 1893 economic downturn, Pullman company wages decreased while housing and utility costs remained the same, prompting large scale violence and strikes known collectively as The Pullman Strike. The strike shut down the Chicago rail system, effectively cutting off all transportation in the Western half of the U.S. President Grover Cleveland ended the strike by sending in 2,000 U.S. Army troops, the result of which left 13 strikers dead and many more injured.
The Pullman Strike played a significant role in U.S. Labor and civil rights history, as A. Phillip Randolph would later rise to prominence in both areas of activism by organizing the largely African-American "Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters," a union for the employees of the Pullman Company. Having attained some prominence, Randolph went on to become one of the nation's foremost advocates of civil rights for African-Americans. His achievements and the history of African-Americans in U.S. Labor are celebrated today in Pullman's A. Phillip Randolph Museum.
Since the 1970s the Pullman neighborhood, especially the historic district, has gentrified and experienced a racial shift as wealthier, white Chicagoans moved into the neighborhood attracted by the rich architecture and history. Sites and homes of historical interest are currently seeing impressive, painstaking (and slow) restorations. The neighborhood has a very quiet, sleepy feel, so be sure to visit either on a tour or while the museum and visitor center are open, or you might leave disappointed.
The Grade I Listed Bolingbroke Castle, built by Ranulf around 1220 in Bolingbroke, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire.
Most of the castle is built of Spilsby greenstone, as are several nearby churches. The local greenstone is a limestone that proved to be porous, prone to rapid deterioration when exposed to weather and a substandard building material. The castle was constructed as an irregular polygonal enclosure. The castle is one of the earliest examples of a uniform castle designed and built without a keep. It originally was surrounded by a large water-filled moat 31 metres wide.
Like another castle built by Ranulf during the same period at Beeston in Cheshire, Bolingroke had no inner defensive keep. The castle relied instead on thick walls and the five D shaped defensive corner towers.
The area was first fortified by the Saxons in the 6th or 7th century. In the 12th century the Normans built a Motte-and-bailey on a nearby hill above the settlement of Bolingbroke. The present structure was founded by Ranulf, Earl of Chester, in 1220 shortly after he returned from the Fifth Crusade.
Ranulf died in 1232 without a male heir, and his titles, lands and castles passed to his sisters. Following the death of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster in 1361 Bolingbroke passed through marriage into the ownership of John of Gaunt. His wife Blanche of Lancaster, daughter of Henry of Grosmont, was born at the Castle in 1345. John and Blanche's son, Henry, was also born at Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 and consequentially was known as "Henry Bolingbroke" before he became king in 1399.
By the 15th and 16th century, the castle had fallen into disrepair although repairs were carried out during the Tudor period. In 1636 a survey found that all the towers were effectively beyond repair.
At the start of the First English Civil War, Bolingbroke was again used as a military fortification garrisoned by Royalist forces. In 1643 it was badly damaged in a siege during the Battle of Winceby. The following year, the castle was recaptured from the Parliamentarians but due to defeats elsewhere was relinquished again. In 1652 the castle was slighted to prevent any further use. The towers and walls were torn down and dumped into the moat.
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It may look like a little shove would send this rock on it's way, but unfortunately (or fortunately) it's the size of a small truck.
This view looks across Lake McKellar and down the Greenstone Valley.
This elongated Mask is made from greenstone. The overall demission are 13.8cm (5 7/16 in.) This mask was delivered to the Cleveland Museum of art. It is in public domain. website is www.cleveland.org/art/1921.1701
Taken at the location cited in Part 3 of this set.
My previous photos of the Ely pillow-lava boulder were taken in 2003 and 2008, but I also led a tour here in 2004, as the image above indicates.
This shot shows the upper western side of the big rock, and the pillows at right are particularly well-defined. At least some of them seem to have a flatter side and a somewhat more domed side—theoretically, the latter should have been the original top of each blob of extruded lava. But from what I can see here, it's difficult to draw any firm conclusion about the original orientation from the ways the different domed sides point.
For more on the geologic origin of the Ely Greenstone pillows and the glacial-erratic boulder that contains them, see Part 3 of this set.
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Exploring the Northwoods Country album.
I used to wear a Maori fish hook bone carving round my neck for years, it was the only jewellery that I would wear as I don't like wearing gold, now I've conceded to wearing a watch and a non gold wedding ring. Eventually as happens with these things the bone split and cracked, to the Maori this is supposed to mean your life is going to take a change, to me it meant I needed to find somewhere that sold decent bone carvings again.
I looked for ages but couldn't find anything decent, then when I was in London I stuck my head into Camden Market to get myself some new juggling clubs and came across a greenstone seller on the top floor doing the same carvings but in greenstone. He had bone too, but I love the way greenstone has a texture within it when light passes through it. The necklace part is snapped though so I need to re-thread it at some point over the weekend.
So that I could show what it looked like when light passed through I constructed a home made light box using the case my moo cards came in, a petzl torch, 2 books to raise the case to spread the light a little more evenly, turn off all the lights in the room and away we go with the macro lens. :) The dark spots you can see are actually trapped inside the carving, not dirt on my lens btw... :D
Queenstown.
It is situated on Lake Wakatipu which was created by glacial activity. It is roughly Z shaped surrounded by high alpine peaks and ranges - The Remarkables Ranges, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak etc. Queenstown has a population of about 13,000 people and it is one of the major tourist areas of NZ and the third largest city of Otago province. The first white person to see Lake Wakatipu was Nathaneal Chalmers in 1853. He was led here by local Maori people who caught eels and fish in the lake. Maoris probably visited this area on trips to the west coast to collect greenstone for their carvings. In 1848 the Crown purchased the land from the local Maori people. William Rees was the first white man to settle in this region which he did in 1860 when he established his high country sheep station. It was a truly isolated area but the discovery of gold on the nearby Shotover River in 1862 created an influx of white people to the region and Rees converted his woolshed into a hotel!( Other gold finds in western Otago included those at Cromwell and Clyde.) Without the gold rush Queenstown would have been a long time developing. A few historical buildings remain from the gold rush era namely the William’s Cottage, the original Courthouse and the Anglican Church. Nearby Arrowtown is another gold rush township of this part of the Southern Alps. Queenstown was officially declared in 1863 and named Queenstown in honour of Queen Victoria and after Queenstown in Ireland. (Queenstown in County Cork is now known as Cobh.)
Heritage Listed buildings in this snow and water skiing, bungy jumping tourist city.
•Courthouse (45 Ballarat St) and Library (44 Stanley St.) The Courthouse was completed in 1876 and the Library in 1877 and both were designed by Invercargill architect F Burnell. The buildings are at right angles to each other and made of local schist stone. They are shaded by giant Wellingtonia Pine Trees – Sequoia giganteum of California. The Courthouse is still operational. In the 1960s the local Council intended to demolish the library but listened to the public outcry about that and retained it. Both buildings have half rounded windows in the Romanesque style.
•Lake County Council Chambers, 50 Ballarat Street, built 1880 in Romanesque style of local schist. Sold by the council in 1999. The local council was formed in 1876. Now run as Speights Ale House. Architect was F Burnell who built many of the fine structures in central Invercargill in the 1870s and 1880s.
•Forresters Lodge, also 50 Ballarat Street. Classical style with triangular pediment and 2 windows and central door. Only a façade these days. Appears to date from the 1880s. Part of Speights Ale House complex.
• The Ballarat Street stone bridge. It was built across Horne Creek in 1882 as a single arch bridge in local schist.
•St Peter’s Anglican Church, 2 Church Street. This fine Anglican Church with a square tower and witches hat spire was built of local stone in 1932. The stone came from the edges of Lake Wakatipu. The original wooden church in Gothic style was erected in 1863. Its erection was assisted with support from William Rees who had the original sheep station of the Queenstown district. When this 1932 church was built the old 1863 wooden church was donated to the town of Omakau in Central Otago where it is still in use. The wooden Anglican Church hall and Parish office was built in 1905. Associated with the Anglican precinct is the former Vicarage adjacent to the church which was built in the 19th century with a gable and small bay window. Bay windows were very popular in the 1880s.
•Hullert, 68 Ballarat St. It is a steep walk to Hullert. This is one of the few grand houses of the 19th century left in Queenstown. Hullert was built in 1889 for Horatio Firth who was Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar for Queenstown in the 1880s. Firth was a public servant but a family inheritance gave him money to acquire land overlooking Lake Wakatipu and to have an architect design Hullert for him in 1888. Firth was imprisoned for embezzlement in 1901 and his wife ran the house as a boarding house until she departed for Wellington in 1909. After the departure of Firth the house was renamed to Tutuila and had various owners and uses including girls’ school, maternity hospital, holiday rental, backpackers and bed and breakfast. The house was restored in the 1980s and is made of New Zealand Red Beech with bay windows, verandas and marble fireplaces inside. Hullert is up the hill but the views are fantastic and worth the street climb.
•St Joseph’s Catholic church, 41 Melbourne St. A Catholic Church was first built in Queenstown in 1863 near the Anglican Church in Church Street. A presbytery was built in 1877 in Melbourne St and converted to a convent in 1882 as the Covent School opened in 1883. The church and land was sold in Church Street in 1883 and services were held at the Catholic School until this grand stone church was erected in 1898.The architect of this modest church was Francis Petre the Dunedin architect who also designed Dunedin’s Catholic Cathedral, Wellington’s Catholic Cathedral, the grand Catholic Cathedral in Christchurch which is now facing demolition, and that wonderful Catholic Basilica in Oamaru.
•William’s cottage, 21 Marine Parade. This was not William Rees cottage but the cottage of an early settler who purchased this land in 1866. John Williams built the cottage about that time. It is believed to be the oldest house/structure in Queenstown. Williams ran a boat service across Lake Wakatipu. He transported gold under escort to the train at Kingston for the NZ government. Williams died in the cottage in 1881. It became vacant in the 1980s and was purchased by the NZ Historic Places Trust. It is run as a small museum.
•Masonic Lodge building, 13 Marine Parade. This simple structure now known as Lake Lodge of Ophir was built in 1863 the year gold was discovered. It is probably the oldest stone building in Queenstown. William Rees is believed to have donated the land to the Masons for this building. Its name comes from the Bible as Ophir was the region of gold. (Remember one of the first gold finds in NSW in 1852 was near Bathurst at a place which was named Ophir.)
•Coronation Bath House, 28 Marine Parade. The wooden bath house appears to date from around 1900 at a time when few houses had washing or bathing facilities.It is now a café, tapas bar and restaurant.
Paddle Steamer Earnslaw.
The Earnslaw is one of the last coal fired steam powered paddle steamers operating in the world today. It was built in naval foundry workshops in Dunedin for the Otago Railways at a cost of more than £20,000 in 1912. The railways wanted a service across Lake Wakatipu to connect with their train services from Kingston. The ship was named after Mt Earnslaw a 2,889 metre high peak at the end of Lake Wakatipu. The 52 metre long steel framed ship was disassembled and railed from Dunedin to Kingston which is the end of the railway line. It was then re-assembled at Kingston and sailed up Lake Wakatipu to Queenstown creating a NZ Railways service from Invercargill and thus the rest of the South Island through to Queenstown. The PS Earnslaw and her sister ships transported passengers, wool and supplies to Queenstown and to sheep stations around Lake Wakatipu. The service was scrapped in 1968 and the Earnslaw was saved from salvage by a travel company leasing it as a tourist attraction. She was later purchased by the company and renovated in the 1980s. The polished wood on the boat is NZ kauri. The Earnslaw has carried Queen Elizabeth and she has been used in several movies. Today the Earnslaw has a single route across Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown to Walter Peak High Country Farm.
Our hike on day 3 went from East Chickenbone to Rock Harbor, with most of the day on the Greenstone Trail. We ascended several "mountains" and high points. This scene shows part of the ascent on the way to Mount Franklin, 1,080 feet (330 meters).
You can read more about the park in my story in the NPT:
www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2019/06/park-different-isle...
Queenstown.
It is situated on Lake Wakatipu which was created by glacial activity. It is roughly Z shaped surrounded by high alpine peaks and ranges - The Remarkables Ranges, Cecil Peak, Walter Peak etc. Queenstown has a population of about 13,000 people and it is one of the major tourist areas of NZ and the third largest city of Otago province. The first white person to see Lake Wakatipu was Nathaneal Chalmers in 1853. He was led here by local Maori people who caught eels and fish in the lake. Maoris probably visited this area on trips to the west coast to collect greenstone for their carvings. In 1848 the Crown purchased the land from the local Maori people. William Rees was the first white man to settle in this region which he did in 1860 when he established his high country sheep station. It was a truly isolated area but the discovery of gold on the nearby Shotover River in 1862 created an influx of white people to the region and Rees converted his woolshed into a hotel!( Other gold finds in western Otago included those at Cromwell and Clyde.) Without the gold rush Queenstown would have been a long time developing. A few historical buildings remain from the gold rush era namely the William’s Cottage, the original Courthouse and the Anglican Church. Nearby Arrowtown is another gold rush township of this part of the Southern Alps. Queenstown was officially declared in 1863 and named Queenstown in honour of Queen Victoria and after Queenstown in Ireland. (Queenstown in County Cork is now known as Cobh.)
Heritage Listed buildings in this snow and water skiing, bungy jumping tourist city.
•Courthouse (45 Ballarat St) and Library (44 Stanley St.) The Courthouse was completed in 1876 and the Library in 1877 and both were designed by Invercargill architect F Burnell. The buildings are at right angles to each other and made of local schist stone. They are shaded by giant Wellingtonia Pine Trees – Sequoia giganteum of California. The Courthouse is still operational. In the 1960s the local Council intended to demolish the library but listened to the public outcry about that and retained it. Both buildings have half rounded windows in the Romanesque style.
•Lake County Council Chambers, 50 Ballarat Street, built 1880 in Romanesque style of local schist. Sold by the council in 1999. The local council was formed in 1876. Now run as Speights Ale House. Architect was F Burnell who built many of the fine structures in central Invercargill in the 1870s and 1880s.
•Forresters Lodge, also 50 Ballarat Street. Classical style with triangular pediment and 2 windows and central door. Only a façade these days. Appears to date from the 1880s. Part of Speights Ale House complex.
• The Ballarat Street stone bridge. It was built across Horne Creek in 1882 as a single arch bridge in local schist.
•St Peter’s Anglican Church, 2 Church Street. This fine Anglican Church with a square tower and witches hat spire was built of local stone in 1932. The stone came from the edges of Lake Wakatipu. The original wooden church in Gothic style was erected in 1863. Its erection was assisted with support from William Rees who had the original sheep station of the Queenstown district. When this 1932 church was built the old 1863 wooden church was donated to the town of Omakau in Central Otago where it is still in use. The wooden Anglican Church hall and Parish office was built in 1905. Associated with the Anglican precinct is the former Vicarage adjacent to the church which was built in the 19th century with a gable and small bay window. Bay windows were very popular in the 1880s.
•Hullert, 68 Ballarat St. It is a steep walk to Hullert. This is one of the few grand houses of the 19th century left in Queenstown. Hullert was built in 1889 for Horatio Firth who was Receiver of Gold Revenue and Mining Registrar for Queenstown in the 1880s. Firth was a public servant but a family inheritance gave him money to acquire land overlooking Lake Wakatipu and to have an architect design Hullert for him in 1888. Firth was imprisoned for embezzlement in 1901 and his wife ran the house as a boarding house until she departed for Wellington in 1909. After the departure of Firth the house was renamed to Tutuila and had various owners and uses including girls’ school, maternity hospital, holiday rental, backpackers and bed and breakfast. The house was restored in the 1980s and is made of New Zealand Red Beech with bay windows, verandas and marble fireplaces inside. Hullert is up the hill but the views are fantastic and worth the street climb.
•St Joseph’s Catholic church, 41 Melbourne St. A Catholic Church was first built in Queenstown in 1863 near the Anglican Church in Church Street. A presbytery was built in 1877 in Melbourne St and converted to a convent in 1882 as the Covent School opened in 1883. The church and land was sold in Church Street in 1883 and services were held at the Catholic School until this grand stone church was erected in 1898.The architect of this modest church was Francis Petre the Dunedin architect who also designed Dunedin’s Catholic Cathedral, Wellington’s Catholic Cathedral, the grand Catholic Cathedral in Christchurch which is now facing demolition, and that wonderful Catholic Basilica in Oamaru.
•William’s cottage, 21 Marine Parade. This was not William Rees cottage but the cottage of an early settler who purchased this land in 1866. John Williams built the cottage about that time. It is believed to be the oldest house/structure in Queenstown. Williams ran a boat service across Lake Wakatipu. He transported gold under escort to the train at Kingston for the NZ government. Williams died in the cottage in 1881. It became vacant in the 1980s and was purchased by the NZ Historic Places Trust. It is run as a small museum.
•Masonic Lodge building, 13 Marine Parade. This simple structure now known as Lake Lodge of Ophir was built in 1863 the year gold was discovered. It is probably the oldest stone building in Queenstown. William Rees is believed to have donated the land to the Masons for this building. Its name comes from the Bible as Ophir was the region of gold. (Remember one of the first gold finds in NSW in 1852 was near Bathurst at a place which was named Ophir.)
•Coronation Bath House, 28 Marine Parade. The wooden bath house appears to date from around 1900 at a time when few houses had washing or bathing facilities.It is now a café, tapas bar and restaurant.
a brief history of the Westover Dairy:
"Back in the early 1920's W.W. Manley, a plumber by trade, operated the Sanitary Dairy and the Wishmore Dairy in Lynchburg. Proving he was a better plumber than a dairyman, Mr. Manley soon ran into financial difficulty; and the two dairies merged into one, the Sanitary Dairy, and moved to 8th and Harrison in 1930. In 1940, two years after Barney Kroger's death, the Sanitary Dairy was incorporated and the name changed to the Lynchburg Dairy, Inc.. Mr. C. L. Fleshman, who later became president of Westover Dairy, was hired as Manager of the Lynchburg Dairy.
"Shortly after W.W. Manley started in the dairy business, another dairy was opened in Westover Heights by Mr. R. E. Jones and Mr. Norman B. Lee. This dairy was called the "Westover" Dairy.
The stage was set for the merger of the Westover and Lynchburg dairies, to form the Lynchburg Westover Dairy in 1946. Soon the Memorial Avenue facilities of the Lynchburg Westover Dairy were just too small for the business, and a new and modern dairy was designed and built on its present site at 2801 Fort Avenue. This fine plant began operations in February, 1960 and soon after acquired another old line Lynchburg Dairy, the Quality Dairy located on Oakley Avenue.
"In 1973 the Westover Dairy was sold to Dairymen's, Inc. and operated as Flav-O-Rich until June 1979, when it was purchased by the Kroger Co. and restored to the Westover Dairy name."
(courtesy Mike Dooley, Human Resources Manager at the Westover Dairy)
a highlight of the dairy's main entrance seen here is its decorative, Lynchburg-mined greenstone.
A little side trip to New Zealand. I have always admired the traditional 'fish hook' pendants of the Maori. These are my versions. (Except for the bottom right--a practice piece that is a direct copy of a jade piece carved by a New Zealand artist--will post his name when I find it again.) These remind me very much of Helen Breil, whose book I have yet to read, but I suspect I will feel right at home in it.
Photographed the Herzog HZGX 175 (GP38M) working the Canadian National Railway tracks in Longlac Ontario a community of Greenstone alng the Trans-Canada Highway 11 corridor in Northern Ontario Canada.
HZGX 175 is a modified rebuilt GP38M as per Herzog specifications.
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Taken at the location cited in Part 3 of this set.
Now home to a thriving ecosystem of foliose and crustose lichens, the Ely pillow-lava boulder may be very weathered and colonized, but it still provides excellent examples of basaltic lava that erupted into seawater 2.7 Ga ago, during the Neoarchean era.
From this picture alone, I'd guess that this large chunk of glacially transported Ely Greenstone came to rest partly flipped over from the orientation of the pillows when they first formed.
The best supporting evidence of this is the pillow at lower left, just above the visible section of chain-link fence. Its current bottom side is very distinctly convex, while its current upper side is straighter to a little concave. Because pillows often bulge upward with domed tops and have flatter or inwardly curved undersides, it appears this one is rotated about 140 degrees from its original position.
However, using that domed-upward criterion, at least one of the pillows on the other side (see the preceding photo in this set) seems to be sitting right side up, more or less. The problem is that each pillow, like each human being, has its own variation on a standard shape.
You'll find the other photos and descriptions of this series in my Exploring the Northwoods Country album.
White Sands National Park, NM
I came across this emerald mystery while hiking in the dunefield of White Sands. It appears to be some sort of glass but not a marble as it isn't totally round. Perhaps some debris from missile launches at the White Sands Missile Range adjacent to the park? For safety they do shutdown traffic in the park and on the nearby highway while launches are in progress. Silly me, in my adherence to "Take only pics...", I did not pick it up and inspect it more closely. Kinda wish I did now. Input from viewers welcome.